Seven people in pre-trial detention center No. 4 in the Volgograd region injured themselves as a sign of protest. this with reference to the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service. reports Interfax “One of the accused, while in a punishment cell, imitated a suicide attempt, after which he was sent to medical correctional institution No. 15 for a medical examination,” the department noted.

Members and professors of the Russian Academy of Sciences addressed in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin with a request to soften the preventive measure against rector Sergei Zuev. The letter was published by Novaya Gazeta. The letter was signed by 59 academicians.

In St. Petersburg, activists were detained by Lelyu Nordik, Polina Titova, Marina Shiryaeva and Marina Singh, who conducted the action against gender violence. This was reported with reference to the associates of the detainees. Also, together with them, the police detained the Sota journalist Andrei Boka and correspondents Nikita Adishchev and Sergey Kagermazov, the human rights project said.

Rector Sergei Zuev was charged with a new episode of fraud (). this with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. reports Interfax Zuev was accused of “fictitiously” employing 12 researchers at the Institute of Social Sciences in 2018, together with former Deputy Minister of Education Marina Rakova and former employee Evgeniy Zak. Previously, the Ministry of Internal Affairs brought a similar charge against Rakova and Zak.

In Kazan, during a protest against QR codes, which took place near the city hall and the entrance to the Kremlin, 40 people were detained, including Sota correspondent Nailya Mullaeva. this The publication itself reports . As Sota later , clarified . Mullaeva, who was covering the rally, was released from the police department without a protocol According to the calculations of a Kommersant correspondent, there were only two paddy wagons with protesters.

The Presnensky court of Moscow has appointed 3.5 years a colony of general regime three bloggers in the case of a taxi for the sake of a draw (paragraph “a” of part 2 of Article 166 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the metropolitan prosecutor's office. The verdict was sentenced to 24-year-old Ramir Khasanov, 29-year-old Aydin Tusupova and 31-year-old Yersin Dumshebay.

The former head of the Dagestan village of Bogatyrevka, Magomed Khazamov , said that in 2014 he was tortured for a month in order to confess to the murder of the founder of the Chernovnik newspaper, Gadzhimurad Kamalov. Khazamov, who is now on trial in this case, gave an interview to Chernovnik journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, who is accused of involvement in terrorism. Both are now in jail.

The State Duma, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, deprived Communist Party deputy Valery Rashkin of immunity due to a case of illegal hunting (clause “a” of part 1 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code), the meeting is broadcast on the parliament’s website. The deputies also allowed the communist to be given a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. Rashkin was detained at the end of October in a forest in the Saratov region.

The Parliament of North Ossetia did not get enough votes to approve the government bill on the introduction of QR codes. This was reported by the local publication Osnova. in North Ossetia There are 69 deputies ; 35 votes are needed to pass the project by majority. A total of 46 people took part in the voting, of which 30 were in favor, 12 were against, and four abstained. Communist Party deputy Elena Knyazeva said that after the first vote an extraordinary meeting was called.

Executive director Kristina Kryuchkova admitted guilt and testified against university rector Sergei Zuev and the rest of the defendants in the case, an claims . Interfax source “Kryuchkova fully admitted her part of the guilt, spoke about the scheme for cashing out the stolen money, testified against the rector of Shaninka Sergei Zuev and other defendants in the case,” the agency quoted the words of an unnamed interlocutor.

Alexander Kalashnikov. Photo: Anton Podgayko / TASS President Vladimir Putin dismissed the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Kalashnikov, the Kremlin website said . The deputy Minister of the Interior Arkady Gostev was appointed to his position. The reports of the Presidential Administration do not explain the reasons for the resignation.

The police took away from the Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg the honored swimming coach Alexander Ilyin, who refused to wear a medical mask in the hall. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. They are going to draw up a new protocol against the coach for violating sanitary rules (Part 1 of Article 20.6.1 of the Administrative Code).

In the Stavropol Territory, several hundred workers of the Rossiya collective farm entered the protest against the current chairman of the enterprise Sergei Pyanov, the mediazone correspondent reports from the scene. The conflict on the collective farm began in February 2021. Then, at a meeting of authorized chairmen, the head of the association was elected foreman Alexander Grinev, not Sergey Pyanov, who has been the chairman of Russia for the past 30 years.

In Moscow, a case was opened due to the Instagram story of a Muscovite who relieved himself at night on a stand with a portrait and biography of a participant in the Great Patriotic War. This was reported by the Moscow Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee . The case was opened under the article on “insulting the memory of defenders of the Fatherland” on the Internet (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, in an interview with RIA Novosti, advocated reducing the share of migrants among janitors and utility workers. “We have practically no migrants in large urban utility enterprises. They remained at the level of the housing KGB, where there is a lot of janitor work, menial and low-paid. But even there, it seems to me, there is room for improvement,” Sobyanin said.